Shop is my getaway unless I'm working on customer's stuff then the phone is on. Any other time, no. Nothing worse than getting into "that zone" where your'e totally focused on what you're doing, stuff's falling together as planned,........and then the phone rings because the ol lady just wants to chit-chat with no other purpose. "can you go pick up some ex lax?" Or the guy down the road needs his truck jump started. Or the lady next door needs the plumbing addressed. That's happened. But it's legit-tub was plugged up with hair. Yeah I get the call, she says come on over. I walk in the side door she says follow me to the bathroom. Well, I had a different idea than her so it became awkward quickly. Bathtub was about to run over. Went back to the shop grabbed a piece of 3/32 4043 TIG rod, bent the tip of it and went back to her place and unplugged the pipe as requested. I even left her the rod so she could unplug it by herself the next time.
besides the older I get the more I realize that reading it in a book or a chart exercises my brain, which is a good thing. Well, it's a good thing until I get where I can't read it no more; and with my eyes, that's gonna be here sooner than expected.
